Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vertical v. Horizontal unionism bobbed up again. This time the drive to reform the Federation along vertical (industrial) lines rather than the traditional horizontal (craft) union structure was precipitated by the Oilfield, Gas Well & Refinery Workers, who were about to be decimated among metal craft organizations. Other small, new industrial unions were marshaling for verticalism under the covert leadership, it was said, of John Llewellyn Lewis, whose United Mine Workers are organized vertically and form the most powerful single A. F. of L. unit...
...more than five minutes on either side of one of the following questions: "Resolved" That Italy is the unjust aggressor in the Ethiopian dispute," "Resolved: That the Roosevelt Administration deserves the confidence of the American people", and "Resolved: That the greatest problem of our national society is constitutional reform...
Last week the Council launched its campaign with quarter-page newspaper advertisements and announcements devoted largely to telling what it was not going to do. The Council will take no legislative or political action. It will not attempt to reform drunkards. It will not prosecute drunken motorists. It will not set standards of moderation or tell anyone how much he should drink...
...first journey of the season. For fear there are those young ones as yet unfamiliar with his ways, a happy word of counsel may not be out of place. Sagmus, his old friend and philosopher, is wont to take the Vagabond under his warm wing. Not to reform, mind you, for the philosopher is a bit of a vagrant himself, but to befriend with wisdom. And the Vagabond seeks that precious jewel with all his heart. The talk was of travel; yet not travel of the common sort but of the imagination. For it is known to the Vagabond...
...resignation brings sorrow to lawyers everywhere. A brilliant scholar in fields broadly philosophic as well as technically legal, at home equally in foreign jurisprudence and American law, for years a force in legal education, he yet found time in an unusually active career to lead all movements for law reform and improvement. I trust his withdrawal from administrative duty indicates no diminution of his public service, and that for many years to come he will continue to be a national and international leader of our profession...